Greenholme Peggy, registered Fell filly

Greenholme Peggy is our first imported pony from the Greenholme stud in Cumbria, UK. Her lines come from Ludworth, Lunesdale, Kinkryhill, and Heltondale. Kinkryhill Shadow, her dam, was purchased from the same auction and we have been in touch with her new owner, and Peggy has a sibling now. Peggy was purchased via Internet bidding at the J36 Northwest Auction in 2021. Pre-bidding was a must, as there were some technical difficulties with this auction in terms of live bids online being “seen” in time. Most that bid at a distance at this auction, do so via phone for success. So this was new territory to bid online.

Greenholme has been breeding Fell ponies since 1957. Their land is at 1,000 ft elevation and they winter at the Birkbeck Fell. Greenholme is fairly active on Facebook. A podcast can be found about the Greenholme stud with an interview by Tom Lloyd of Fell Pony Adventures with Bill Potter here: Fell Pony Podcast. Another earlier interview with Bill Potter can be found on Vimeo by Dreamtime Films. Highly recommended if you want to learn about the ponies and their people and how the good un’s are “made in Cumbria,” which I truly believe. The photos at the end of this album are of our 2019 and 2022 visits. A few include Greenholme Diego.

Jane had a lovely visit to the Greenholme stud in 2019 and 2022, and absolutely loved the type, hardiness and quality of these ponies. Met Bill & John Potter along the way and they were gracious enough to educate our Pints & Ponies’ tour group about their Fells and Fells in general. Along with getting a very adventurous ride in an ATV in rain to find ponies with Bill on his 80th birthday, so he told us.

Peggy is considered black and the tips of her mane fade to a lighter brown seasonally which is an accepted trait in Fells. She’s got a lovely demeanor, was very easy to train at liberty with R+ methods and she excels with obstacles.

We are looking forward to showing her in Mountain Trail in 2023 and getting her out and ponied with the big kids for some trail experience. She’s very willing, stout, athletic and smart.

Peggy is the greeter in the herd when we have visitors. Peggy moved from our flatter pasture across the road to our foothill, at about 900 ft. elevation, just before winter and has been thriving with her herd mates, JKL Istas and Littletree Matador, whom welcomed her to the USA. She was a little lonesome on arrival and spit under the fence to join the herd in full on arrival (rather uneventful, but exciting to watch). I wanted her to be separate until all were introduced and she was settled in. To reduce her anxiety, Mr. Matador was chosen to keep her worries at bay and he was an excellent, kind mentor for her. She is very brave and wiggles herself into the middle of the two older ponies currently for feed, so I intuit she will be a very social, and curious soul in her future adventures.

Peggy will be retained as a broodmare down the road, as well as being trained to ride, show and be an ambassador for Fell ponies.